The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Table talk and Conversations of James Northcote, esq., R.AJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 - English essays |
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... present hour.1 I used to set it on the ground when my day's work was done , and saw revealed to me with swim- ming eyes the birth of new hopes , and of a new world of objects . The painter thus learns to look at nature with different ...
... present hour.1 I used to set it on the ground when my day's work was done , and saw revealed to me with swim- ming eyes the birth of new hopes , and of a new world of objects . The painter thus learns to look at nature with different ...
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... presents . This bishop had fallen into the vulgar error , and was rebuked accordingly . ' Besides the exercise of the mind , painting exercises the body . It is a mechanical as well as a liberal art . To do any thing , to dig a hole in ...
... presents . This bishop had fallen into the vulgar error , and was rebuked accordingly . ' Besides the exercise of the mind , painting exercises the body . It is a mechanical as well as a liberal art . To do any thing , to dig a hole in ...
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... present with him , and a continual source of pleasing and lofty contemplations . It may be different in a taste for outward luxuries and the privations of mere sense ; but the idea of perfection , which acts as an intellectual foil , is ...
... present with him , and a continual source of pleasing and lofty contemplations . It may be different in a taste for outward luxuries and the privations of mere sense ; but the idea of perfection , which acts as an intellectual foil , is ...
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... of mind . I have some desire to enjoy the present good , and some fondness for the past ; but I am not at all given to building castles in the air , nor to look forward with 21 ON THE PAST AND FUTURE ESSAY III On the Past and Future.
... of mind . I have some desire to enjoy the present good , and some fondness for the past ; but I am not at all given to building castles in the air , nor to look forward with 21 ON THE PAST AND FUTURE ESSAY III On the Past and Future.
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... present argument . I cannot see , then , any rational or logical ground for that mighty difference in the value which mankind generally set upon the past and future , as if the one was every thing , and the other nothing , of no ...
... present argument . I cannot see , then , any rational or logical ground for that mighty difference in the value which mankind generally set upon the past and future , as if the one was every thing , and the other nothing , of no ...
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Page 396 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Page 179 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 393 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 180 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 39 - Merciful heaven ! What, man ? ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ; Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Page 295 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 99 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.